The 3rd Annual TESOL Literature Contest
Who is eligible to submit?
Categories available
Strictures to be followed.
Your piece of writing should
Submission period
and deadline
Awards and honorable
mentions
When finalists will be
announced?
Genres
and types of writing that qualify
Submission requirements
Practicalities: manuscript presentation guidelines
The judges of the contest committee for the year 2011-2012
Securing transparency in the judging process
How the
selection process proceeds?
Purpose of the competition
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TESOL Greece enthusiastically supports
the efforts of students of English as well as possible emerging
writers of creative writing of all ages;
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TESOL Greece encourages creativity and
fluency in English at all ages in schools, frondisteria and
academic institutions in Greece and abroad;
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TESOL Greece is a non-profit
organization, for this reason participating in the Literature
competition requires no entry fee;
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The TESOL Literature Contest is open to
all Greek and international students around the world as well as
teachers and amateur or experienced writers who may or may not
have already published their work prior to their participation
in the contest.
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Immigrants living in Greece and around
the world are also eligible.
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Young Learners
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Intermediate Level
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Proficiency Level
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Academic—undergraduate/graduate students
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Amateur writers published or unpublished
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be free of commercialism; it should not
mention or advertize any products available in the market;
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be politically correct; it should not
offend any religious, national or cultural differences foreign
to your own;
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not present any profane ideas, insults or
‘dirty language’, though slang or other informal registers are
acceptable;
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not attack or offend any real-life
persons; you should not use any names of real people while
delineating your characters;
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not refer to any political ideology or
discuss any political ideas even if that occurs within the
context of a dialogue between characters.
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If your piece contains any of the above
items it will be immediately discarded.
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Authors will not be contacted for changes
as there is no editorial staff for the contest given the time
limit.
Submission period starts September 1st , 2011
Deadline:
January 30th , 2012.
Your entry must be postmarked (if sent by regular mail) or submitted
online by January 30th
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You can remove yourself from the
competition but you should do so before the deadline.
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In the event an extension is granted, it
will be announced on the TESOL website and in the January issue
of the
Newsletter.
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Only the winners and those who will
receive honorable mentions will be contacted by March 1st ,
2012.
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Awards usually come in the form of
literary books, reference material or various Study Aids offered
by various publishing houses. Theater tickets or other kinds of
prizes may feature as well. The types of prizes depend on the
publishers and friends of TESOL Greece who may decide to sponsor
the Literature Contest each year.
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Winners may get a one-year subscription
to the TESOL Greece
Newsletter
as a prize if decided by the board.
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Teachers who have encouraged and tutored
their students in the literary forms required by the contest; in
short, who have urged their English class to participate in the
contest will receive honorable mention in the event their
students’ pieces do not win. However, in the event any of their
students wins, both the student and the teacher will receive an
award.
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Prizes and their sponsor(s) for the year
2011-2012 will be announced shortly on our website.
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This year’s winners will be announced at
the end of the TESOL Greece International Convention which is
usually Sunday evening before the farewell party.
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Winners and their families or partners
will be allowed free entry to the TESOL International Convention
venue located at
22
Massalias ST, 10680 Athens, Greece.
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The winners will be asked to come up on
stage to accept their award.
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In case of a tie or a co-author, each
contestant will receive a separate prize.
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Any winning author reserves the right to
refuse publication provided they notify the judges of their
decision before the deadline.
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All genres, types and styles of writing
as well as themes are welcome provided the piece of writing is
original and is the result of your own personal effort and
making.
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Due to the nature of the contest, the
time-crunch and the workload involved for the volunteer judges
of the committee, novels, novellas, and longer than one-act
plays are excluded.
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The literary forms that qualify are those
that have been in circulation for the last 400 years of the
English literary output.
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Any appropriations or ingenious re-writes
of already existing literary pieces are welcome.
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Prose:
up to 5, 000 words maximum or 20-25 double-spaced
pages
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Poetry:
up to 1,000 words maximum or 30-40 lines
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One-act plays:
up to 5,000 words maximum or 20-25
double-spaced pages
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Entries must conform to
ALL
of the Contest Guidelines or else be deemed
unacceptable; each contestant must announce in their email or
letter that they have read and will abide by the guidelines in
their entirety.
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Submissions sent via snail mail should be
addressed to Mrs.
Antigoni Konstanti
(TESOL Greece’s Executive Officer)
17 Kapodistriou Street, 10677,
Athens-Greece.
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Online submissions should also be addressed to Mrs. Antigoni
Konstanti and sent to the following email address:
tesolgreece@gmail.com
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Your contact information should be
detailed, correct and current; if we cannot locate you should
you win another runner- up will be chosen in your stead.
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If you are mailing your contribution, you
should send
3 copies
of your piece (one for each of the judges) but only one copy of
the cover page (which will be kept from the members of the
contest committee till the winners have been decided upon.
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If you are emailing your contribution,
the cover page will not be emailed to the judging committee till
the completion of the process.
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Remember only contributions written in
English shall be considered.
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Your entry may be single-authored or
co-authored.
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Each participant is allowed to submit up
to three entries written in the same or in different genres but
only one of the pieces can win, only one prize can be won by
that prolific author.
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Each contestant will receive a Thank you
note and a confirmation that their work has been received. If
you do not hear from us, write back to get a confirmation.
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Those who have no Internet access will be
notified by phone that their piece has reached the TESOL office.
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The judges will notify each winner
individually (including those who will receive honorable
mention); if you do not hear from us, you may safely assume your
entry did not make it to the finals.
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The list of winners will be posted on the
TESOL Greece website
www.tesolgreece.org
within two weeks after the International
Convention of TESOL Greece.
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The copyright remains the property of the
author but TESOL Greece requires a one-time right to publish the
winning pieces and/or those pieces that get an honorable mention
in the
Newsletter
and on the
website.
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Use plain 8½ X 11 or A-4 white paper if
you are sending your work via regular mail
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Print only on one side of the paper
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Double-space your text; 1.5 is the
minimum
- an academic professor
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members of
the TESOL Greece Board; namely:
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Penny Masoura Email:
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Sevi Iosifidou Email:
sevi_iosifidou@hotmail.com
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Penny Masoura Email:
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Contestants are free to contact the
judges for any questions by email or can use the FAQ section
displayed on the website to send their html message.
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Privacy is assured/ensured on all levels
till the winners have been chosen; even the TESOL Board is not
privy to the contesting pieces.
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Only the Executive Officer and the TESOL
Chair have access to the names of the contestants which are kept
safely in the office and away from the view of the 3 judges.
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The Chair of TESOL Greece and the judges
ensure the contestants that the selection process runs as
ethically as possible; nevertheless, we are open to any
suggestions for improvement and transparency both from the
participants as well as from all TESOL members and non-members
alike.
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Each judge selects the entries she/he
thinks are worth winning;
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Those pieces are read again by the judges
and the final pieces are chosen;
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The Finalists are awarded 1st , 2nd , and
3rd place;
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Those pieces that will get an honorable
mention are chosen from the final badge.
